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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

he's The Worst™️ (/affectionate)

riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

you're absolutely the sweetest, thank you! ♥️♥️ I'm a bit sporadic these days, so it's easy for it to go under the radar I imagine!

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I miss this asshole, too about time he showed up again 😂

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Part VIII bsky.app/profile/rive...

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

They sat in silence for awhile, the rain shower outside becoming a torrent, slashing against the windows with a godlike fury. The landlord lit the fireplace, and a pleasant heat filled the room. "It's good to see you, Iz."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Yeah." "What about you?" "What about me." "Did you really go back to whaling?" "Does it look like I went back to whaling?" "You're too old to be-" "Oh fuck right off-" "Damnit, Iz, I didn't mean it like that, just-" "Fuck off, Jack. I'm fine, alright. Fucking great even. Never better."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"I'm glad you're not dead." "Getting soft in your old age, huh, Hands." Jack's eyes softened. He took a drink. "Yeah, me, too. Most days, anyway." "I- Look, I'm sorry about-" "Don't be. None of us could have guessed he'd do that. Sounds like it worked out for him anyway."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Yeah, well." Izzy slammed the rest of his drink and called for another. "Hey hey, slow down there sweet cheeks. At least give me a chance to catch up." "Fuck off." Jack huffed a laugh. Something warm climbed up Izzy's throat. He choked it back down.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"You look pretty good for a dead guy." "Was gonna say the same about you." Jack eyed Izzy over the rim of his glass. He wasn't as drunk as he let people believe, never was. Izzy knew him well enough to know he was being seen right through. He didn't like it.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"You best fuck off mate, or we're going to have a problem." "Nice to see you, too, princess." "Jesus-" "Close enough. Now are you gonna stand there gaping like a fish or are you gonna let me buy you a drink."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

He had just enough sense left to not get kicked out of his lodgings and so made his way to the alley for an unsteady piss before stumbling back to his table where a watered down whiskey was waiting for him. The problem was that someone else appeared to be drinking it.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The months passed by gray and shabby and miserable. Left with nothing to do, Izzy drank too much and swore too much and generally made himself unpleasant enough that at least one Nantucket pub had closed its doors to him. Fuck them anyway, what did they know about anything

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Irene ♠️🍽️ Little Man @neopessimist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Hey guys did you know that Roach

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Irene ♠️🍽️ Little Man @neopessimist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I haven't drawn Ed in a hot hot sec 🫣 But I saw #DrawEdTeach and had to! c: #ofmd #ofmdfanart #ourflagmeansdeath #edteach #art

Digital sketch of Ed teach lighting a pipe

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"I have this," Roach whispered, running Izzy's finger over the ring on his own, the simple gold band set with an emerald. "As long as I wear this, you are with me. I am safe." "I won't do it. I won't let you do this." "It is already done."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"You cannot keep this up. I cannot bear to see you always so tired." "And what about you?" Roach seemed grayer by the moment and Izzy wanted to grab him, to shake him, to scream. Look at you! All shadows and nightmares! I can't- "I can't look after you," he whispered. "Not from here."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"It is done, Izzy. You are staying here." "The fuck I am-" "No, do not fight me on this. My love, please." Roach's eyes were shining. He took Izzy's hand and held it softly. Izzy choked. "Roach-" "It is only six months. I will be back to you soon. I promise." "Roach-"

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Right," he said, forcing himself to get used to the idea in a hurry. I'll get us square with the landlord then, and-" "It is already paid. For six months." "Six- Now, wait a minute."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Izzy's heart dropped. He thought they'd have more time, but Roach was right, of course he was. Everything cost more these days, and they might not get another chance if they waited. Izzy felt like he was getting older every minute.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Roach stared into his mug a moment. "The Bonny Prince sails tomorrow."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Izzy glanced up and his breath caught. Roach looked a little gray around the edges, exhausted in the way Izzy had been frantically clawing against for months, and panic gripped him. "Roach, love-"

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"The Ebenezer ships out on Tuesday." "Izzy-" "Or there's the Orion next week. The Witch of Endor sails the day after next, if we're feeling desperate, but I think-" "Izzy-" "- I mean, we probably have enough to stay ashore a month if we have to, though I don't think we should push-" "Izzy."

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

He hadn't signed up because he had a choice, and it wasn't likely he'd ever have a choice again. Roach's hand on his shoulder startled him from his thoughts before they could spiral darker. Izzy took a breath. "First round's on me." Roach grinned and Izzy felt a little lighter.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Regardless, it was bloody and horrible work. He was getting too old for it, and if a few weeks' lodging and beer was all it could pay anymore, well- Well, that was a few weeks' more than he'd get anywhere else anymore

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It wasn't for any love that he'd signed aboard, certainly. Even in his younger days, he'd always felt a bit uneasy about killing the beasts. Something about their eyes had always made him feel like they were smarter than they let on. Public sentiment seemed to be catching up these days.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

But even they, in all their gold capped folly, could not conjure a whale, he supposed. Not for the first time, Izzy wondered if it was time to pack it in.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Izzy looked at the note in his hand with a grimace. They'd made almost nothing on this voyage, certainly nowhere near enough to get by until the next one. Izzy suspected the company owners knew as much and had a hand in it, or they would if they'd been smart enough

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The season ended with little fanfare, just a quiet, resigned puff of air pushing them southward with a hold half empty, until at last the Acushnet nestled itself in among the other masts of Nantucket with a groan.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The days passed like cream, thick and heavy, and Izzy and Roach took the sweetness from it that they could

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For awhile, they just stare at the horizon. The sun is setting petulantly, spreading wide over the sea like a child insisting he isn't tired. It lights up Roach's curls. Nothing else matters.

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riverhag 🏴‍☠️ @riverhag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Been awhile." Roach's glare softens at the look on Izzy's face. Izzy's glad. He didn't say it to start a fight. "Spare a puff?" Roach hands over the pipe, the tension in his shoulders easing slightly. "Nice one, that." Izzy coughs, but he doesn't mean to. It's been awhile for him, too.

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Becky🪼 @killerweasel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Calico Jack

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aloc @aloc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

old stuff bc the mood #ofmd

old ofmd sketch it supposed to be Stede supporting wounded Ed in the breakup robe

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